Nigeria - Ethnic groups

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The predominant racial group is West African Negroid. The purest lineage
is now found in the southeastern forest belt, but Negroid stock forms
the basic substratum throughout most of Nigeria. Non-Negroid racial
types include the Fulani (Fulbe), of Mediterranean extraction, who are
widely dispersed throughout the north but who have become largely
assimilated to the predominant Negroid type, and the Semitic Shuwa
Arabs, who are confined to the Lake Chad area in the extreme northeast.

There are three dominant ethnolinguistic groups. The Yoruba predominate
in Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, and Osun states. The Ibo (Igbo) predominate in
Anambra, Imo, Abia, and Enugu states. The Hausa and Fulani constitute
the largest single groups in Sokoto, Kaduna, Jigawa, Katsina, and Kano
states. Other important groups include the Kanuri in Borno and Yobe
states; the Edo (Bini) in Edo State; the Ibibio in Akwa Ibam State; the
Ijaw (Ijo) in Rivers State; the Tiv in Benue and Plateau states; and the
Nupe in Niger State. The Hausa in the past have been officially
estimated to constitute 21% of the population; Yoruba, 21%; Ibo, 18%;
Fulani, 12%; Ijaw, 10%; Kanuri, 4.1%; Ibibio, 3.6%; Tiv, 2.5%; and
others, 18.7%.

User Contributions:

Can i know the land mass of each ethnic groups and which of the census did you use to estimate the population of this ethnic group because the Hausa and Fulani count their sheep and cow in this last census.

I wish to make a correction that the Tiv ethnic group is not only found in Benue and Plateau states but in Taraba state as well.Secondly i wish to know the indices used in determining the population of each ethnic group,please.

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